When the history of this administration is written, maybe someone will note the dissonance between the president’s hip persona and his retro ideology. Here was a man who promised a “transformative” presidency. Yet when transformation came, it amounted to a two-pronged attempt to impose, from one side, a version of European social democracy by way of ObamaCare, and from the other side a version of Chinese state-directed “capitalism” by way of the stimulus….

In a different age, Mr. Obama would have been the guy who went out and bought an Edsel. In this age, Mr. Obama is the guy demanding that you buy an Edsel, too. That car is today called the Volt.

Barack Obama, yesterday’s man.

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During the 1992 campaign, James Carville was reported to have looked at a piece of video from a Bush event and said, mostly to himself, “That guy stinks of yesterday.”

He was harsh, but essentially correct.

Obama stinks of yesterday. I’ve said it for years, but we just lived through the Walter Mondale administration — a collection of ideas and policies and prejudices that have been unchanged by progress or re-evaluation since 1983.

Obama stinks of yesterday. I’ve said it for years, but we just lived through the Walter Mondale administration — a collection of ideas and policies and prejudices that have been unchanged by progress or re-evaluation since 1983.

Obama stinks of yesterday. I’ve said it for years, but we just lived through the Walter Mondale administration — a collection of ideas and policies and prejudices that have been unchanged by progress or re-evaluation since 1983.

I have to give Barry credit for at least carrying more than one state. How hard is it to outdistance a Mondale?

Rob Long

johnak

Obama stinks of yesterday. I’ve said it for years, but we just lived through the Walter Mondale administration — a collection of ideas and policies and prejudices that have been unchanged by progress or re-evaluation since 1983.

Chris Campion: I have to give Barry credit for at least carrying more than one state. How hard is it to outdistance a Mondale?

Rob Long

johnak

Obama stinks of yesterday. I’ve said it for years, but we just lived through the Walter Mondale administration — a collection of ideas and policies and prejudices that have been unchanged by progress or re-evaluation since 1983.